Main points
- Registration of an inheritance for a land share requires contacting a notary within six months of the testator's death.
- If you lose documents for a share, you must restore them through the State Geocadastre or go to court to confirm the right to inheritance.
Inheritance on a share / Photo Unsplash
In the field of land use, inheritance for a land share is almost the most common procedure among other procedures. However, in order to successfully complete this process, a person must know the important details and features of the procedure provided for by law.
What is important to understand when registering an inheritance for a share?
Lawyer Larysa Kys told Channel 24 that the registration of an inheritance for a land share occurs through the heir's application to a notary with a request to accept the inheritance. The application must be submitted no later than six months from the date of the testator's death.
Larisa Kys
Lawyer of the De Jure Law Firm
The notary must provide documents confirming that the deceased had the right to use the share: a State act of ownership of land or an extract from the State Register of Real Property Rights to Real Estate and a Certificate for the share.
What to do if you lose your land documents?
The lawyer also emphasized that if the documents for the share were lost, they must be restored – obtain a copy of the state act for the share from the State Geocadastre. If the certificate for the share is lost, the heir should go to court and prove that the testator had the right to a part of the collective land.
Evidence may include:
- extracts from the Books of Registration of Certificates for Land Shares (shares), indicating the details of the issued certificate, which are provided by the territorial bodies of the State Geocadastre;
- extracts from the Books of Records of Registration of State Acts on Land Ownership;
- certificates from village and settlement councils indicating information about land plots registered under the testator.
Please note! After receiving a positive court decision, the heir will be able to complete the procedure for registering the inheritance, obtain a certificate of the right to inheritance, and subsequently complete the procedure for allocating a land plot and registering ownership of the land plot.
Who owns the land in the village and who can purchase a plot?
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Land in a village can be state, communal, or private property, depending on who owns it.
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Citizens can become owners of land in the village through purchase and sale, donation, exchange, privatization, inheritance, or receiving land plots as free property from state or municipal property.